Commercials sold off a huge -1,593 longs and covered a massive -4,071 shorts to end the week with 56.52% of all open interest, a significant decrease of about 0.72% from the previous week in total open interest, and now stand as a group at 14,394,000 ounces net short, a small decrease of -247,800 ounces net short from the previous week.

Large speculators sold off -1,647 longs while covering -451 shorts for a net long position of 11,430,400 ounces, a small decrease in their net long position of 119,600 ounces from the prior week.

The small speculators sold -1,115 longs while adding 167 shorts for a net long position of 2,963,600 ounces a decrease of -128,200 ounces in their net long position from the prior week.

Overall, all players moved in the same direction this week and the only interesting spot is the swap dealers captured 891 longs and picked up 878 shorts.

Predictions in gold are a wash, however, a further attack on speculator long positions occurred on Wednesday. What is not seen in the price chart is consistent long buying. We see big leaps up in price on Wednesday and Thursday. My theory is this represents commercials trying to establish higher prices and excitement to entice speculators into the game to purchase longs and that is not happening. Another day or two of the doldrums and we can expect to see price raided significantly.

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